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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: "We are five, to-day, monsieur."
"That's true," said Grandet, "but your loaves weigh six pounds;
there'll be some left. Besides, these young fellows from Paris don't
eat bread, you'll see."
"Then they must eat /frippe/?" said Nanon.
/Frippe/ is a word of the local lexicon of Anjou, and means any
accompaniment of bread, from butter which is spread upon it, the
commonest kind of /frippe/, to peach preserve, the most distinguished
of all the /frippes/; those who in their childhood have licked the
/frippe/ and left the bread, will comprehend the meaning of Nanon's
speech.
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